Useful Links

Here's a few links we collected over the years which may be of interest.

Recommended DP and FOI Blogs

• David Higgerson Blog (personal blog by a journalist containing very useful insight and roundup of FOI news from across the UK)
• Information Law Blog (by Ibrahim Hasan, Director, Act Now Training)
• FOI Man (written by an FOI officer in the public sector; useful insider's perspective)
• FOI News blog (by journalist Mathew Davis)
• Panopticon Blog (Information Law Blog from Barristers at 11KBW)
• FOI Blog (by the Campaign for Freedom of Information)
• BBC FOI Blog
• Jiscmail Data Protection Bulletin Board
• Jiscmail Freedom of Information Bulletin Board

FOI

• NEW Employers Organisation Advice on UNISON FOI request
• Local E Gov Standards Body Guide to FOI
• No secrets in central government
• No. 10 releases info on secret meetings
• Lord Chancellor's Speech
• Freedom of Information in the USA
• Honours and the Guardian
• The Guardian makes requests under FOI...
• Campaign for FOI recent stories
• NHS discussion group
• FOI or not FOI?
• Using FOI in Eire
• Scottish Information Commissioner website

DP

• NEW Schools and the Student Support Service
• The Home office guide to identity theft
• Dr Rita Pal and the DP Act
• CCTV Cameras in Classrooms
• Consent for abortion for 14 yr old
• Consultation on ID Cards
• Naomi wins privacy case in the Lords
• Data sharing & Domestic Violence
• TPS regs extended
• CRB problems
• Commissioner view of Durant
• Webcams in classrooms?
• Mortascreen
• The bereavement register
• Privacy or Surveillance?
• Surveillance or Privacy?
• CCTV user group - many good links
• Edinburgh Uni advice on DP, RM  & FOI
• PDF from DCA on a survey conducted by MORI
• privacy & electronic communications regulations
• another breach of the DP Act
• The old Datasharing issue...
• Conviction under DP Act
• EU breaches DP laws for US airlines
• Baby MPS - a thoughtful and useful service
• COP on intelligence gathering from the cops
• That Zeta Jones judgement in full
• Government gateway unlawful

RM

• Records Management Tips
• the document site - managing your documents
• Lest we forget - Records management disaster stories

RIPA

• New consultation on access to Communications data
• Nokia's new phone is subject to RIPA
• New Regulations on interception of email

HRA

• You'll never miss a thing... with déjà view